Took Eve to Dromoland today to feed the duckies.
Beautiful mother and daughter:
Mum would be proud of me. Yes, I took photos of a flower:
Granny Prendergast sitting happily in Dromoland’s walled garden:
Sign changed this morning from For Sale to Sold. Happy days. Nearly didn’t though. When I cleaned out the house I left things like spare tiles and spare carpet, spare shelves etc. so that in the event there was any problems the new owners had the right tiles or carpet to carryout any repairs in the future. But the buyer wouldn’t accept the house until I had removed these items. Well actually, just the tiles. Makes no sense. But then again it was the City Council that bought the house. Civil servants don’t need to make sense. Hope there’s a leak in the bathroom.
While I was on my way to remove the tiles, my car expired at the side of the road, just on the edge of Quin. I reckon it thought that it had done enough.
Closed the door on my house in Limerick today for the last time. Tomorrow morning, following a brief inspection, the sale is due to close. Happy days. Lots of good times and great memories. Better’s yet to come in Quin with Judy & Eve.
Loaded up. Another two skips of crap to be carted away. It’s amazing how much stuff can be fitted in to the car.
English language version of the Official Le Mans site was hacked presumably by an Audi fan. Or simply someone who’s owned a Peugeot in the past. It wasn’t me.
Just picked this up for Judy. It’s a 47cms Cannondale frame designed to take 650C wheels. Should be a cracker when it’s completed. I’m aiming to make a hybrid flat bar road bike with it. I’ve tracked down some Dia Compe SS 650 x 26c tyres in white for it. Stay tuned.
For Sale:
My Trek 6500 SLR, Trek 1000 SL and my Raleigh “Mirage”
Adding my Cannondale Jekyll project:
Sat in bed this morning in stunned silence. Little Eve was sitting up on my chest, smiling and looking at each of her feet in turn, wiggling her toes on one foot, then looking at the other foot and wiggling the toes on that foot. We were actually watching her discover her feet. How cool is that?
Courtesy of the Sunday Independent -
“Finance Minister Brian Lenihan claimed yesterday that the residential property market will stabilise following the transfer of toxic debt from the banks to Nama — and predicted that people will now begin to buy houses again.
Yesterday, Mr Lenihan told the Sunday Independent: “One of the good things about the steep discount, averaging 47 per cent, is that the residential property market will now be stabilised at a realistic level.”
He added: “You can now buy in confidence that the price is realistic.”
The Finance Minister’s belief that the property market has hit the bottom will come as a surprise to a number of economists, and other observers of the market, who recently predicted a further decline.”
The Minister just can’t help himself, he’s obviously bursting with pride over his new child, NAMA, that he feels compelled to make even more fantastical predictions. Famous last words.
Famous last words. I don’t normally do this, but this is a very important issue for the country. Today, 30th of March, the NAMA discounts were announced by the government. It’s been an interesting day and it looks, at least on the surfacce that the government is being a little bit more realistic in valuing the bad loans that NAMA are going to take on. A fact for which they are being critisied for as reports indicate that the various bodies are in shock at the high rate of discount applied. I can only say that I’m very, very glad. Personally I think they could have probably gone a bit further, but I suppose you could say that the aim of NAMA is to get money back in to the banks, so they couldn’t be doing the dog on the discounting. However, I think Mr. Lenihan may have gone a tad too far this evening. He said that Nama and the regulator had been told to be very conservative and cautious. “All the downside risk has been taken into account,” he contended. Famous last words.
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